Introduction to Rehabilitation Readiness

Rehabilitation readiness helps people with serious psychiatric disabilities to actively assess their own willingness to engage in rehabilitation. The research background and context for the concepts involved in both assessing and developing psychiatric rehabilitation readiness are discussed.

The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practice

Describes the complexities of the psychiatric rehabilitation process, programs, and principles in a most straightforward and user-friendly way, in order to improve the implementation, practice, and study of psychiatric rehabilitation. Includes checklists, examples, forms, and key principles.

Books & Curricula Archive

After nearly 50 years the Center has a significant back catalogue of materials that are still of interest to a smaller audience but that we no longer market or maintain. A selection of these items are available below for download and will be added to over time. Books The Hillside Diary and Other Writings (2004) […]

Voices of Recovery

Voices of Recovery consists of two different types of “voices.” The first “voice” is a selection of recovery stories that were published in the Coping With column of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal from the years 2000 through 2008. The second “voice” is a collection of Photovoice projects, which includes a photograph and a short narrative explaining the personal meaning behind the picture from the photographer’s point of view.

The Recovery Workbook

This resource seeks to teach awareness and understanding of the recovery process; to teach coping and empowerment strategies for recovery; and to provide the information and skills needed to strengthen the recovery process, to cope more creatively, and to live life more fully.

Recovery from Severe Mental Illnesses

In two landmark volumes, Davidson, Harding, and Spaniol present over 30 years of accumulating evidence that challenges the long-held view that severe mental illnesses typically follow a deteriorating course.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Second Edition

Highlights the technology of psychiatric rehabilitation, which permits the comprehensive training of practitioners; the evaluation of practice; the development and replication of programs; and the integration of a comprehensive psychiatric rehabilitation approach into mental health service systems.

Readings in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

An excellent resource for students of psychiatric rehabilitation, professionals, consumers, and advocates—or for anyone interested in understanding the needs of persons with psychiatric disabilities.